This colourful and clear resources shows students sentence openers, challenging vocabulary, punctuation and connectives that could be used in their writing.
This is very helpful across curriculum for both creative writing and non fiction writing.
When printed in colour and laminated the edges can be scored with scissors so that they bend into a pyramid shape. The tab can then be stapled / sellotaped closed.
A collection of ideas to develop use of Ros Wilson VCOP (vocabulary, connectives, sentence openers and connectives) collated from TES primary thread. Topics also included: word work; sentence structure and punctuation.
72 starters- one starter per slide. Or can be used for literacy intervention lessons.
Easy to read, clear font and design. Suit KS2, KS3 and KS4.
All starters are for English and Literacy.
Starters focus mostly on: SPAG, VCOP, word classes and devices.
Print slides for lower ability to work on or ask them to choose 3 questions only from the ones given.
Great for differentiation and can be used at any secondary level. For use in a similar way to language mats but in the style of primary, literacy focus VCOP pyramids. There are 4 categories in each set; 'sentence openers', 'justifications', 'connectives' and contrasting' and 'opinions' with simple terms at the top becoming more complex further down. Great for independent writing and speaking activities or for extra support.
Two games for use with VCOP. One is a Sentence Openers game - build a paragraph by rolling a dice and follwing the instructions. The second is a board game based on the Fiery Ideas ‘complication’ software. Topics also included: sentence structure and punctuation.
Vocabulary, Connectives, Openers, Punctuation, Up Level and Dictionary work. Each of the six areas has 30 to 40 activities that should work well as a carousel keeping children busy during group reading. Based on a few other things I've seen and downloaded. I have simply changed the format, re-vamped the graphics, developed the idea and added to them. Hope it saves someone some work.
VCOP based one-a-day starters for Literacy. Covers Vocabulary, Connectives, Openers and Punctuation. Based on others I saw. I have added to, tidied up, changed and adapted to suit me. Hope they suit you too!
Useful for all teachers at all levels and Key stages, which gives a very simple aids for students in their writing for Geography and History which gives examples and suggestions of specialist terms to include in their work for each of the areas.
Totally editable for all staff to add / amend / remove terms from the pyramids which makes these useful for all subjects across school at all levels.
Perfect for English lessons, or as part of a literacy across the curriculum scheme, the VCOP lessons aim to build students' fundamental writing skills.
Engaging, differentiated, and easily adaptable, this lesson aims to improve students' skills at using varied and appropriate punctuation, following a logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps:
- Defining punctuation marks;
- Identifying varied vocabulary in humorous writing examples;
- Analysing varied vocabulary in an interesting descriptive passage;
- Creating their descriptive piece, using varied vocabulary;
- Peer or self evaluating their varied vocabulary attempts.
Resources, worksheets, and a lesson plan are provided.
This resource can either be bought alone, or as part of a VCOP bundle (see resource VCOP - All lessons & scheme - vocabulary, connectives, openers, punctuation) for just £1 more.
Perfect for English lessons, or as part of a literacy across the curriculum scheme, the VCOP lessons aim to build students' fundamental writing skills.
Engaging, differentiated, and easily adaptable, this lesson aims to improve students' skills at using varied and appropriate sentence openers, following a logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps:
- Defining the different words that they can use to vary how they open sentences;
- Identifying varied openers in humorous writing examples;
- Analysing varied openings in an interesting descriptive passage;
- Creating a descriptive piece, using varied sentence openers;
- Peer or self evaluating the effectiveness of their varied sentence openers.
Resources, worksheets, and a lesson plan are provided.
This resource can either be bought alone, or as part of a VCOP bundle (see resource VCOP - All lessons & scheme - vocabulary, connectives, openers, punctuation) for just £1 more.
Perfect for English lessons, or as part of a literacy across the curriculum scheme, the VCOP lessons aim to build students' fundamental writing skills.
Engaging, differentiated, and easily adaptable, this lesson aims to improve students' skills at using varied and appropriate connectives in their writing, following a logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps:
- Defining connectives types;
- Identifying connectives in humorous writing examples;
- Analysing connectives in an interesting descriptive passage;
- Creating a descriptive piece, using varied connectives;
- Peer or self evaluating their writing attempts, and in particular the use of connectives
Resources, worksheets, and a lesson plan are provided.
This resource can either be bought alone, or as part of a VCOP bundle (see resource VCOP - All lessons & scheme - vocabulary, connectives, openers, punctuation) for just £1 more.
Perfect for English lessons, or as part of a literacy across the curriculum scheme, the VCOP lessons aim to build students' fundamental writing skills.
Engaging, differentiated, and easily adaptable, this lesson aims to improve students' skills at using varied and appropriate vocabulary, following a logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps:
- Defining word types;
- Identifying varied vocabulary in humorous writing examples;
- Analysing varied vocabulary in an interesting descriptive passage;
- Creating their descriptive piece, using varied vocabulary;
- Peer or self evaluating their varied vocabulary attempts.
Resources, worksheets, and a lesson plan are provided.
This resource can either be bought alone, or as part of a VCOP bundle (see resource VCOP - All lessons & scheme - vocabulary, connectives, openers, punctuation) for just £1 more.
A 14-slide presentation illustrating how to use VCOP (Vocabulary, Connectives, Openers, Punctuation) in your classroom to enhance learning.
Also included is a useful writing mat and 4 VCOP display triangles.
A planning sheet for a Vikings story using a VCOP focus on Connectives/Openers. Aimed at Primary 3/4/5 this provides a cleas structure for planning an imaginative story.
